1 All the awfulness of the storm seemed to her more splendid now.
2 But so it is the same thing that all the frogs croak before a storm.
3 A heavy, lowering storm cloud had blown up, and big raindrops were falling.
4 But at once quelling the storm within her, she sat down and began talking to their guest.
5 Though the rain was over, they still stood in the same position in which they had been standing when the storm broke.
6 In that brief interval of time the storm clouds had moved on, covering the sun so completely that it was dark as an eclipse.
7 The storm had drifted on to the opposite side of the sky, and there were flashes of lightning and distant thunder from that quarter.
8 The women, all singing, began to come close to Levin, and he felt as though a storm were swooping down upon him with a thunder of merriment.
9 For a moment there would come a lull in the storm, but then it would swoop down again with such onslaughts that it seemed impossible to stand against it.
10 Then all of a sudden, on Easter Monday, a warm wind sprang up, storm clouds swooped down, and for three days and three nights the warm, driving rain fell in streams.
11 After the rain it was too wet to go for a walk; besides, the storm clouds still hung about the horizon, and gathered here and there, black and thundery, on the rim of the sky.
12 And Levin ceased speaking and then called the attention of his guests to the fact that the storm clouds were gathering, and that they had better be going home before it rained.
13 The storm swooped down, enveloped him and the haycock on which he was lying, and the other haycocks, and the wagon-loads, and the whole meadow and distant fields all seemed to be shaking and singing to the measures of this wild merry song with its shouts and whistles and clapping.
14 Behind the fog there was the flowing of water, the cracking and floating of ice, the swift rush of turbid, foaming torrents; and on the following Monday, in the evening, the fog parted, the storm clouds split up into little curling crests of cloud, the sky cleared, and the real spring had come.